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... frankness — are essentially vices in politics, because they dethrone more surely and more certainly than does the strongest enemy. These qualities are attributes of Gentile rule; we certainly must not be guided by them." And again: "On the ruins of the hereditary aristocracy of the Gentiles we have set up the aristocracy of our educated class, and over all the aristocracy of money. We have...
... of the stage. The rage of the day is not plays, but playhouses. With not three plays of any character to distinguish them from the dregs of the stage, there are now building in New York alone a dozen new playhouses. The theatrical business has entered upon its real estate phase. There is money in renting chairs at the rate of $1 to $3 an hour. The renting of the chairs is a reality. The Stage is...
... have opened, but either we are unaware of the door - we see it and yet see it not - or we don't think it is a door, we don't recognise it as a door. We are so occupied in our thoughts that we by-pass it, brooding, stewing in our own miseries; or we are looking for something else - for money, for power, for prestige. But god comes to every life in many many moments and remains unrecognised. From this...
... larger quantity of terumah (which is cheaper) so that its proceeds should suffice for the purchase of the required quantity of ordinary food. Lit., 'money'. In the subject under discussion. Tosef. Keth. V. ab. init. R. Judah and R. Simeon b. Gamaliel. In the selling of her terumah. It is difficult to sell terumah (the buyers of which, being priests only, are naturally few) and it must be offered at a...
... with the heifer. The rebellious elder. The Sanhedrin. V. p. 67, n. 10. Deut. XVII, 8. Gone sour. I.e., if the second tithe was redeemed, and the redemption money became rusty, and lost its face value, the coins must be assessed and redeemed (i.e., exchanged) for others of current acceptance. Lit., 'who are not dealers'. Lit., 'Three who throw into one purse'. And those have a common purse. Who traded...
... did not argue in the manner, it can be inferred that if one errs regarding a law cited in the Mishnah, the decision may not be reversed. In answering the contradiction. The Mishnah in Bek. Then the decision cannot be reversed. Our Mishnah. In that case, an erroneous judgment was reversed. For he is confirming the defendant in the possession of the money claimed from him by the plaintiff. Then he can...
... with a [colour] sample round his neck, nor a money-changer with a denar14 in his ear; and if he does go forth, he is not liable, though it is forbidden: this is R. Meir's view.15 R. Judah said: An artisan is liable [for carrying out an object] in the manner of his trade, but all other people are exempt. One [Baraitha] taught: A zab must not go out with his pouch;16 yet if he goes...
... was liberal with his money. Ordinarily, if a man owes half a prutah [to a workman], he spends it in a shop,27 but Job used to make a present of it [to the workman]. And then Satan answered the Lord and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast thou not made at hedge about him and about his house etc.28 What is the meaning of the words, Thou hast blessed the work of his hands?29 ...
... of the testator. Had he been in good health. he could not transfer in this way a verbal loan, which, since a person usually spends the money he borrows, is not In existence. Lit., 'it is not'. He cannot transfer an abstract thing (cf. p. 637 n. 16). How', then, could it be said that. apart from only one difference (v. note 6), there was no distinction between the power of a healthy, and those of a...
... first year of a king's reign2 is counted as his second,4 the second as his third;5 and sometimes [it may happen] that [a person] might borrow money from another6 on a folded [deed] and, in the meantime,7 he might obtain funds and repay him, but [when] requesting the return of his deed,8 [the creditor] might reply to him, 'I lost it', and would write out for him...
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